Plan profil et elevation du Fort Condé de la Mobille.

Format:

Manuscript

Map/Atlas

Contributor:

Edward E. Ayer Collection (Newberry Library), owner.

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Fortification--Alabama--Fort Charlotte (Mobile)--Maps--Early works to 1800.

Fortification.

Mobile (Ala.)--Maps--Early works to 1800.

Mobile (Ala.).

Genre:

Manuscript maps.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 map).

Production:

[Place of production not identified : producer not identified, approximately 1720]

Summary:

Shows Mobile and Fort Condé (later renamed Fort Charlotte); includes 4 lines of notes keyed to references A-D and profile of the fort (115 x 493 mm).

Notes:

AM reference: VAULT drawer Ayer MS map 30 sheet 86

Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America was originally published in 2013, as American Indian Histories and Cultures. The title was changed in 2024.

Oriented with north at right. Described and reproduced in Buisseret, David, Mapping the French empire in North America (Chicago: Newberry Library, 1991), pp. [86]-87, no. 40.

Scale c.1:1,740. 'Echelle de 100 toises pour le plan' [= 112 mm].

Sheet 86 of 115 numbered leaves in the Cartes Marines Manuscript Map Collection, detailing French colonial interests worldwide. Compiled c.1640-c.1726, probably under the direction of prominent members of the Besenval family, who served as high military officers and diplomats for the French crown, the maps detail French colonial interests in the style of military and naval cartographers. Most sheets are anonymous and undated. Bound together in 1727 as an atlas comprised of 117 numbered leaves; maps later disbound and mounted on cloth. All sheets are drawn with pen-and-ink and watercolour; most were previously folded. Each leaf catalogued individually.

Description based on publisher-supplied metadata (viewed January 30, 2024).